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( . ⚯ ͛.ᐟ ) 𝑩𝑨𝑩𝒀𝑫𝑶𝑳𝑳 ⸻ 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟
Syria Black was never meant to be anything more than Sirius Black's shadow - the quieter twin, the one who survived six years at Hogwarts by staying useful to Severus Snape's circle and invisible to everyone else. She had no loyalties worth dying for, no wars worth fighting, and that suited her perfectly. Then James Potter decided she was worth noticing, and Syria made the catastrophic mistake of noticing him back. What follows is not a love story she gets to keep - James belongs to a different girl, a different future, a son neither of them can yet imagine - but it is the story of how a girl who refused to choose a side finally understood that silence is also a choice.
Threaded underneath, almost quietly enough to miss: Marcus Narres, the fifth Marauder, falling into Monika Woodrow's orbit the way people do during wars - without permission, without a plan. Some stories are about the people history remembers. This one is about everyone else.
𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑐 𝑥 𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟
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